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zado19 posted...

@CedarPointcp posted...

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

I'm right there next to them questioning them about everything they do.

why do you do that?

To have an understanding of what a stranger in your home, working for a corporation, is installing into your home...???

It's also a great way to find out if you're getting ripped off. Since one can claim something is wrong is x, when it's completely unrelated or you know is functioning because others claim it's y and not x.
Ofcourse that requires some self knowledge and cross referencing various encounters.

Kinda like when you go to the quick change place and they claim you need to replace the old filters in your car when you just had the very same place change them not even a week ago. It's always great when they have moments of 'they found us out'

Yeah, totally just a mouse... rat would be at least twice that size.

I like the comment of 'can they pick it up'... you don't wanna know what it feels like to be bit by a scared rodent, especially an unknown one. I've been bit by pet hamsters in the past and it's one of the worst surprise! feelings ever.

Also in an attempt to catch it she only made it so much worse. At least it was caught in the end.

As someone who was rooting for gigabyte, that was damn hard to watch. Though the comment about seeing flying saucers in the LA area was funny.

Seems shatter's weapon was acting up again like the witch doctor fight... so that was disappointing, though it did get a decent hit into the wheel area of minotaur, but seemed to just be the void area where nothing happens.

I also feel bad for breaker box, was hoping to see it do alright, but it just burns itself out or get critical hit'd. At least it was less brutal to watch than gigabyte.

Is it bad I read that as autobahn.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Purple_Cheetah posted...

One thing that struck me about it is how old it looks. It's not that old, yet looks 5-10 years older than it really is... I guess it's just the cameras or something that screws with it. It was around the same time as Roseanne and Home Improvement for example, but looks starkly different for some reason.

Anyways, if it's on I enjoy it, but I've never been a super fan to seek it out so to speak.

You gotta remember that Fox only became a channel in '86. They didn't have the budget that more established networks had. They were the underdog channel with edgy new shows like Married with Children, The Simpsons, and Cops.

Probably it then, like the cameras were slightly less quality or the editing less sophisticated. Not saying it was bad, but for some reason I could never shake off the feeling that it was older for some reason. Guess that just adds to its charm.

One thing that struck me about it is how old it looks. It's not that old, yet looks 5-10 years older than it really is... I guess it's just the cameras or something that screws with it. It was around the same time as Roseanne and Home Improvement for example, but looks starkly different for some reason.

Anyways, if it's on I enjoy it, but I've never been a super fan to seek it out so to speak.

I remember the first time I did this and it was the worst feeling ever.

I bought something and the change was literally 1 damn penny, but I didn't want it. So I told the cashier to keep it and she said 'thank you' as a sort of "I take pity on ur peasantness, u 1 cent harlot"

After that I just felt like shit, but couldn't go back or it'd be even worse.

Blockbuster, xbox 360.

I don't know what it'd have been... hmm.

I do know that I bought Baja edge of control at movie gallery when it was going belly up and selling its inventory. It was a pretty good deal, forget how much it was, but it was like 5 or 10 to buy any game and less for a movie. Unfortunately some of the stuff was already out, and I grabbed that, because I saw it was in and wanted it based on literally having rented it in the past.

I don't even want to change the bulb above me. So no...

Also suprised this isn't one of the ones where it's got the camera on his chest. Actually gives you a good perspective of how 'nah' it is. Not to mention climbing it you have a bag of tools swinging/hanging below you. I forget how much it weighs, around 20-30 pounds at least.

Found the one I was thinking about.

Rated M for murr.

For a moment I thought this was going to be another game, but it's a work in progress iirc.

Think the only Jeep I'll ever actually like is the original gladiator, not that new one.

I blame Tremors... it's a damn sexy truck and I don't know why.

The dad was funny though.

Oh, I also completely forgot about the forward control as well. mmm

Thank you for reminding me of when I first learned about neuticles and had a moment.

Basically they're fake testicle implants you can buy and have put into your neutered dog post surgeory. Reason being you don't have to worry about puppies, but get to keep the aesthetic of dog balls. They even come in different sizes so you can possibly make them look bigger to an extent, but they're just for show.

I don't know if I want to see if they're still around, last I checked they were when I was reminded of them again. Best damn medical science right there.

They still exist...

Pretty sure they drew inspiration from the actual uncontacted tribes of the world and feed upon that fear, there's at least 2 that you're supposed to never go near as it's illegal and in the case of the one off africa or india (iirc) dangerous. Some christian guy went there in the last 2 or so years to spread the word even when warned to stay away, got killed pretty quick.

Don't know if any are cannibals like this, but the movie was definitely one of those 'this is a bit rough to sit through, but might as well finish it'

The Brave Little Toaster

I like how they're angled specifically so they funnel at the entry way. Notice how there's no opening towards the front of the center. It's angled so you can walk in and literally see everyone at a glance. Or maybe it was done so that if you're doing your buisiness and someone enters you can look at them and give a grunt of dominance as you drop a plopper.

It's probably due to looking at or seeing the person who just entered for the pooper's safety. The trade off is now they gotta let everyone freely judge their posture. I cannot think of any other reason outside of maybe stall sex deterrent.

Calwings posted...

Bronco's looking more like a past-his-prime racehorse that's destined to be a bottle of glue

This is one of those moments I actually feel pretty bad for a bot. It's also possibly a good bit to slap onto some ED/male performance ad.

Of all the ways and things to fail, it just.. I assume it was a repair that didn't hold up.

I think my favorite part about that deep six gif is the puft of smoke. "and I'm spent"

Hope hypershock does better this time and doesn't get disemboweled instantly.

I remember doing that once. Think it was Ocarina of Time. There was a save at/near the very end, I deleted it and left them with a save that wasn't even to the tree of kokiri.

>:3

Different strokes for different folks.

10

7-12 mins pending route.

Charmander, no. Bulbasaur
Cyndaquil, no. Chikorita
Torchic, yes (I still hate the evos for it)
Turtwig, yes
Snivy, yes

Never played anything newer, but chances are I'd pick grass or fire. I noticed I have a dislike for the water starters, probably because the staggering amount of water types in gen 1 made me decide it was unneeded or something.

ledbowman posted...

What idiot decided to name it Assault Rifle-15

I don't know if this is serious or a troll jab. But it's just a shortened designation from Armalite to say armalite rifle.

You should look at some like SKS, RPK, PK, or others I can't even fathom to remember.

Even though I know why it's called such, it still throws me for a minor pause when I see .45 acp... automatic colt pistol. The one used in the 1911. I want to instantly associate it with full auto, not self loading. It's due to the shape and how the extractor works, instead of just plopping them in a cylinder like the other design for revolvers.

Was wondering what the hell was going on with science channel. They didn't even show episode 8... said it was for aug 7th, well I sat there aug 7th and it was no where to be found.

I wasn't on earlier and just managed to watch bots last night due to an awesome power outage of nearly 3 hours. Turns out a tree knocked power lines together and blew a transformer, so for about 20-30 mins could sit from the window and watch flaming sparks pour from a tree/line as a firetruck waited for the power company to sort it. It was much excitement. and happened right after bots.

I don't know why, but none of the fights super stuck to me. I'm sad to see breaker box yet again burn up and the nelly vs deep six fight had me instantly saying 'oh no...' because I knew it probably wasn't gonna go well for nelly, but totally didn't see that result happening. Though it did prove my one concern, that deep six can't really self right and even if it functions correctly it's going to send itself flying in reaction due to opposite effect.

Prior, during, etc the subzero fight they constantly called it subzero. Fight starts and my dad says 'eh it's not as fast' and I didn't fully understand why until it was the replay where they mentioned bronco and that's when I find out. "wait they aren't bronco?" ... He thought it was bronco the entire time, ignoring the 'subzero' everywhere. I know they look similiar and there was a joke about it, but I got to see the confusion first hand.

Gone in 60 seconds now seems like a life time.

Don't worry if it's locked or not, your car could be gone in 10 seconds.

Also tempted to mention there's probably a joke in there somewhere about French surrendering so quickly. *sigh*

justaguy3492 posted...

You know I've heard of conceal carry permits, and to some degree it makes a shred of sense, but I've never heard of "just strap a rifle to your back" permits.

There's some weird open carry laws and it varies. I do know there's a place with someone who's been patrolling his own street with a rifle slung or resting on his shoulder for a few years now.

I don't think I could bring myself to just walk around with one. Feels bad enough to just have someone see you own it due to potential theft attempts, let alone tote it around like a handbag letting anyone caress the sight adjustment or trigger.

... Now I'm looking at the height and angle of the muzzle. Someone could discharge it into someone's leg/crotch or even a kid if they tried.

pinky0926 posted...

Purple_Cheetah posted...

If it had a smaller ranged scope I could at least justify it as extreme self defense, but it's clearly a long range optic, thus for precision/hunting. What the hell is he hunting in that situation.

If it's one of those off set iron sight dual sights then fair enough, but still.

Even in the first instance what is he defending himself against, other than from other lunatics walking around with ar 15s

Everyone has something different, guess it's better to have something than nothing these days. Like the guy with 3 handguns in his pants at walmart. If the first or second doesn't work, why the hell does he have a third in the back asking to be taken by someone. 1-2 is understandable, but that extra one adds the concern. I still say that scope looks like a 5-8x and seems overkill/unwieldy if indoors or within 50-100 meters. I guess he hopes to defend himself out to 200ish at minimum.

At the very least it puts out two signs. 1. 'don't mess with me' as a deterrent 2. I'm your first target to neutralize if you're gonna shoot the place up

If it had a smaller ranged scope I could at least justify it as extreme self defense, but it's clearly a long range optic, thus for precision/hunting. What the hell is he hunting in that situation.

If it's one of those off set iron sight dual sights then fair enough, but still.

Banana_Cyanide posted...

BlingBling22947 posted...

We can't own tanks, but toy don't see people fighting to own tanks.

We can't own rocket launchers.

Don't see how an AR-15 is much different in that it makes is super easy to kill a lot of people in a short amount of time.

Yes, yes you absolutely can 100% legally own a tank and a rocket launcher in the US.

Also dear god how are you this uninformed about guns?

Not only that, I was just reminded there's some in the US that have fully functional cannons and even manufacturer their own shells to fire.

Ironically I don't think it's road legal to take them on the street (armored cars are ok), but in europe you can. There's a few vids of them around, and was reminded of this.



Because when I go grocery shopping I need a 13-14 ton tank with a 75mm 12x shell autoloader.
You never know.

For reference, I know for a fact there's a few shermans and m18 hellcats (one had an accident killing the owner and a customer 2ish years ago due to a misfire), a few T-34-85's, 1 leopard 1, 2 chieftans, 1 152mm howitzer all functional. These are just in the US alone. There's several road going light tanks in the EU.

Was just reminded that Arnold Schwarzenegger owns an M47 patton, so add that to the list.

The electronic speed limiter on vehicles varies. For cars it's often 155mph, for trucks/busses it's around 55-60mph. It's to prevent massive stopping distances in vehicles weighing up to 90,000 pounds from going ballistic and having even crazier stopping distance. For cars it can vary, but there is such thing as autobahn cruising and it could also be due to stability reasons or tire speed ratings. Tires are rated for a certain speed, above that they can blow out. Same applies to aerodynamics and some super cars that are convertable have restrictions when the top is down/off as it can blow the door windows out.

This is the reason why you often see mercedes-benz rocking 500-700hp engines or even some others. They may be bricks, but cruising at 100+ effortlessly is what they were intended for... ofcourse can't really do that in the us.

You can legally own grenade launchers, hell I even have access to one right now. Fully functional and legal (except in CA), I'm far from the only one with it either as there's thousands in circulation. The real matter is getting ahold of the munitions for it and not blowing yourself up with it. It's just too much effort and risk.
For an M79 thumper for instance, there's fletchet shells and HE shells. Imagine an over sized 40mm shotgun. As for HE? It's totally legal to fire them, but you need to make special arrangements in certain areas, can't take them out of said area, and it's about 250 usd tax each on top of the cost for the shell.

Most rocket launchers are inert or already used... can't think of many (that are actually sold to civilians) outside of the M72 LAW which is a one off, but iirc someone accidentally ended up with a live one in their garage thinking it was inert, blew 2-3 people up.

Smackdown! Shut your mouth was pretty good. I played the fire out of it and the one prior with it's literal 3-5 minute long saving time to the ps2 memory card. I don't know what the hell was going on there, but if you wanted to make 1 change to a CaW it was something you had to seriously consider... because it had you sit on the saving screen for such a long time. Fortunately they seemed to have optimized it for SYM

I was reminded of this a few months back and had to track down the credits. Forgot how amusing/classic the included footage was. Kinda sad you don't really see this anymore, it's all gloom and doom lay offs or something.

First halfish is more technical and for 2002 really opened ones eyes to how complicated making a game looks with all the debug stuff going. The second half is the more fun and games.

No money, no funny bunny, honey.

Not gonna lie I thought this would be about Remnant: from the ashes. It basically is with how the loot/upgrades work, the health, checkpoint, shortcut opening, and even has damn fog gates for bosses.

The only real difference is it prefers guns over melee, with melee as a secondary/alternative.

I'll reserve my full judgement of it until playing it and I am interested in it, but once I saw it compared and then all the actual similarities I couldn't help but notice them... such as fog door for boss battles and even the weird boss intro cinematic and checkpoints being bonfires made out of rock.

I'll probably play it, because I haven't had a proper 'hate myself' type of game lately.

I noticed that one section is terribly structured with lots of 'and' bondo.

You never know when you need a 22mm rifle grenade launched.

Oh wait, it's not an assault rifle so I'm good.

Makes for a good tennis ball launcher if you don't mind blowing yourself up potentially.

Yeah, I'd either stop going or just carry on. If it's below the knee then it sounds fine, if it's above then I guess you could call it too short.

I used to know of a place where if you were a female you weren't allowed to wear pants of any sort and had to wear a skirt that went to the ankles. If you didn't then they'd eventually chew you out to the point it'd lead to a physical fight or something.

They'll probably use the excuse that all temptation must be removed. Sounds like they'll fail the test of being faithful if that's all it takes. It's understandable if it's the 10-15 year old boys they don't want distracted, but a husband/adult shouldn't be that easily tilted.

ZannoL posted...

@Purple_Cheetah

I see.

I take it the thought of receiving a blow job must be unpleasant? Hopefully the person who sucks you doesnt have big teeth :/

Nah, it's actually fine in that case. It's only a bother when it's vulnerable and hasn't puffed up to look larger as self defense.

ZannoL posted...

Do you think the vein will burst? Is that what youre saying?

Burst, no. Get pinched/cut/torn/etc, yes. It's enough to bother me every so often given a certain circumstance, but usually I don't worry about it.

Yes, there's a particular one that's large and now I'm getting a bit queezy thinking about it. More so due to other reasons as well.

It's sensitive and I'm paranoid the worst is gonna happen if it's so much as brushed by a towel even though it never has.

yet

*weeps softly*

The car better be reimbursed in some form by either geico or your insurance. Usually it'd be geico if it's determined by the companies it was the other party.

If you took 1500 for the car and health etc as a final... then that might be it. As in it's 'done' but I don't know the details and wasn't there.

Hope you weren't hasty or you might have to get your insurance to go after em or cover stuff. If not you'll get what you got.

That's how it sounds at least.

PIITB415 posted...

Not sure why you would call instead of letting your insurance company handle it.

Based on what I've experienced in the last 2 years, if the other person has insurance then you contact their insurance company and tell them their client goofed(or you goofed). Then after some description they tell you to use an app or get someone to estimate it. Be careful taking a random check as it can be their final. In my one instance the actual repair was 5300 and they only offered 2400ish so it'd be about 3k out of our pocket or to go crawl to our insurance. In that case our insurance company went after them to make them pay the extra amount.

You go to yours if they don't have insurance or you feel you're getting snubbed... like repair shop says 4k and they only offer 2k.

If you go to yours first they'll probably tell you to go file a claim with the other person's company.

You're lucky it didn't wrap grapple onto your tongue and proceed to make out with you venomously.

Coulda been worse.

r25 posted...

Damn. Basically when those ants die via electrocution, other bugs come to help fight off the attacker. So they also bite down on the electrical device and die themselves. Keeps happening until the entire colony electrocutes themselves or until the device is short circuited.

Yeah, it reminds me of that one scene in Mom and Dad save the world with the light grenade or a quote from Tremors 2. "You mean they've been acting so smart because they're so stupid?"

The electric device can range from game console, computer/laptop, tv, breaker/fuse box, water well pumps, etc. Basically anything with a current going through it in some form.

There was a video where someone got them in their laptop and brought them home. They didn't realize it or understand the why. Literally a case of 'you should probably just destroy the laptop and your room' because they were starting to roam. Don't know if he solved it or got over ran.

Termite swarmers are damn annoying, as is having your house eaten. I only picked them because ants aren't there.

Ants are usually ok and go about their thing. There's one in particular I'm absolutely terrified of that isn't bitey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasberry_crazy_ant

In short they're drawn to electrical equipment/devices, build colonies in them, die and destroy the device. Displace all other ant species in the area and are immune to fire ants. They're also harder to control/remove than fire ants. They also run around 24/7 as if you've blown on them in a random frenzy as their default.

That's why seeing them in Ant Man bothered me so much. They're hoodlums

Kazi1212 posted...

What the hell is a serval?

Fairly small and lanky exotic cat. I also suggest the caracal and margay.

Honorable mention to the sand cat(actual name), which is nigh impossible to keep in captivity as any hint of humidity results in respiritory infection and usually death. Pretty neat though.

Caracal's make a weird trill, and now glad I was reminded of it.

The call is coming from within the dog.

Breakdown

There's others I'd probably pick, but it's like trying to single out favorites. He's less of a hero man and more of a random guy forced into being a hero man.

Nevermind I see it was mentioned, it's literally like the one post I somehow skimmed over because of all the small things in big china.

I wasn't scared so much as semi-braced for impact.

I didn't really think it'd happen, but knew if it did it'd probably suck. I did sit there waiting during the final lead up and the few hours after going 'is it... did it.... oh nothing' and moving on. Sorta like when you hear something's going to be visible in the sky at a certain hour. You're curious to check it out and see if you can spot it, then move on.

This really does remind me of those enemies in games where you attack it enough it explodes into multiple smaller versions.

Also loved the token "I'm not doing anything" after having pulled away and denying it.

This is just sad, but she did kinda drag it onto everyone else. The boy really didn't help either, but at least I can somewhat understand the protective aspect in that one instance.

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I wouldn't want to deprive anyone of my usually pointless, but sometimes useful/helpful inputs.

I'd say let it be, if it's in the corner doing no harm it's usually fine.

It could be worse.
Twice now I've had 2 different spiders of the same type build a web in my bedroom doorway. You know how annoying it is to go through a door you've gone through countless times only to suddenly have a 10 inch diameter web with supports spanning the entire door and it's just below face level?

>:( I forcibly relocated them, but the one in the window is ok.

Because I don't walk through the window.